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Volume C, Number 11
University of Southern California
Friday, January 24, 1986
Curriculum amended for Freshman Writing
Provost's approval needed
By Marci Kenon
Staff Writer
Members of the university's Undergraduate Studies Committee voted Jan. 15 to change the curriculum of the Freshman Writing Program. The proposal has yet to be approved by the Provost's office, but a deferment of the request is highly unlikely, according to Vice Provost Sylvia Manning.
Composition 101A, 101B and 101C will gradually be dropped from the curriculum and replaced by Composition 101, 102 and 40 for Fall 1986, according to the committee's proposal. A limited number of 101B and 101C courses will remain for students who are taking FWP courses that require continuation in the fall, said Betty Bamberg, director of the program.
"Students have never liked the structure of the program," Bam-burg said in justifying the proposed FWP changes, adding that the grading system has been their main complaint. Making alterations in the curriculum, she said, is the only way to make the necessary changes in the grading.
According to the proposal, all of those specially admitted and those entering the university with SAT verbal scores of 350 or below will be required to take a placement test to determine whether they will have to enroll in Composition 40, a remedial course.
Composition 40 will be worth four units that will not count toward an undergraduate degree.
Arrangements have yet to be made for incoming freshmen who have ACT scores as opposed to SAT scores, Bamberg said.
Bamberg said Composition 101 will be a prerequisite to Composition 102, unlike the present Composition 101A, which is of the same level of difficulty as Composition 101B.
"A standard letter grade will be issued at the end of 101," instead of the grade "N" that is given at the end of 101A, Bamberg said.
The change in grading, she said, would divide course credit evenly at four units per class, and thus alleviate the distress caused by weighing the grade received in 101B with eight units.
Under the new system, graduate students teaching freshman writing will have more guidelines to follow in planning their courses that will differentiate 101 and 102, Bamberg said.
"We'll still expect the 7,000 to 8,000 words per student each semester, but we will require that research technique be taught and longer papers be assigned in 102," she said.
Students hoping to pass out of freshman writing requirements will be able to take the Composition Proficiency Exam at four different times during the year, Bamberg said. But instead of answering one question in two hours, as they had in the past, students will take a two-question exam in two and one-half hours, she said.
"This will give us more information on which to judge the students," she said.
Sale of fraternity house delayed
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
Although the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity has announced the purchase of the Pi Kappa Phi house, Gary Leonard, executive vice president of Pi Kappa Phi Properties, said the deal has not yet been finalized.
Kappa Alpha Psi ran an ad in Wednesday's Daily Trojan announcing it was the first predominantly black fraternity at the university to own its own house, and that it would hold a lawn party to celebrate "a new tradition on the Row."
Kappa Alpha Psi had been renting the Pi Kappa Phi house.
Leonard, who has been working directly with the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on campus, said, "We have signed a contract with them to sell the house, but we are waiting for them to get the funds to close the deal."
Thomas Stricklan, house manager for Kappa Alpha Psi, declined to comment on how the chapter would pay for the house.
Leonard said that he does not know how the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity plans to finance the purchase, but that he hopes to close the sale by the end of the month. He would not disclose the purchase price.
The Pi Kappa Phi chapter that originally occupied the house at 668 W. 28th St. was forced to close after low membership and poor recruitment efforts failed to support it, Leonard said.
The Kappa Alpha Psi members moved into the house after the Pi Kappa Phi chapter closed, and have been renting the house for the past two years.
Shannon Ellis, assistant to the vice-president of student affairs, said, "It's been great having them renting on the Row.”
"We're very pleased (about the purchase of the house). It's a first. We should be having more of it in the future," she said.
Michael Browning, vice-president of Kappa Alpha Psi, said the fraternity decided to buy the house because "it's never been done before — for a predominantly black fraternity to own a house on campus. We felt a need for one."
Who really owns the house at 668 W. 28th St. on the Row?
NEVENA HARP "DAILY TROJAN
MOLLY HUNTSMANDAILY TROJAN
The new electronic scanning system in the Trojan Bookstore reduced customer waiting time from 15 to 5 minutes.
Scanners reduce bookstore lines
By Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
The introduction of an electronic scanning system to checkout stations in the university bookstore sharply reduced the amount of time customers had to wait when purchasing items during the early semester rush, Jack Arnold, the director of business affairs for University Stores, said Thursday.
The university bookstore is the only store of its kind in the entire nation that has complete documentation of merchandise on a scanning system, Arnold said.
He said the average wait in line this semester was approximately five minutes, compared to 15 to 17 minutes the year before.
The scanning system, which cost an estimated $50,000, retains identification codes and prices on a computer. Individual scanners can recall the information immediately when itemizing merchandise.
The immediate effect of the system is that it "allows the cashier to process the customer more quickly," Arnold said.
"(What is) extremely critical is reducing the amount of time (customers) must wait in line," he said. "That is as important to us as it is to the customers."
At the beginning of each semester, an estimated
15,000 to 20,000 customers visit the bookstore during a five-day period, a significant increase over the 3,000 to 4,000 customers that would normally shop at the store within the same period of time.
Arnold said the scanning system enables the bookstore to keep "cleaner data" on its inventory, which comprises some 40 to 50 thousand items.
With the scanning system, "(the bookstore can) maintain a lower overall level of inventory, but be able to meet merchandise needs more quickly," he said.
In the past, the problem of inventory was limited recognizing what items needed to be reordered, Arnold said. The new scanning system gives the store a means of immediately determining w'hat items are out of stock.
"Our entire store is set up for scanning," Arnold said. "We are the only bookstore in the United States to have a complete, item-by-item scanning system."
Most stores use a scanning system for text books only, he said.
The bookstore's scanning system has drawn the interest of other universities across the country, including Stanford, which is sending representatives to observe the system, Arnold said. He said he has also been in contact with officials from Cornell and Syracuse universities, both located in upstate New York, regarding the system.
The university is also planning a seminar to educate other schools about the scanning system, Arnold said.
At present, the scanning system is operating at 75 percent efficiency, Arnold estimated. He said the system should be fully operative in 60 to 90
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Trojans battle in Fayetteville — See SPORTS
dMB^1 trojan
Volume C, Number 11
University of Southern California
Friday, January 24, 1986
Curriculum amended for Freshman Writing
Provost's approval needed
By Marci Kenon
Staff Writer
Members of the university's Undergraduate Studies Committee voted Jan. 15 to change the curriculum of the Freshman Writing Program. The proposal has yet to be approved by the Provost's office, but a deferment of the request is highly unlikely, according to Vice Provost Sylvia Manning.
Composition 101A, 101B and 101C will gradually be dropped from the curriculum and replaced by Composition 101, 102 and 40 for Fall 1986, according to the committee's proposal. A limited number of 101B and 101C courses will remain for students who are taking FWP courses that require continuation in the fall, said Betty Bamberg, director of the program.
"Students have never liked the structure of the program," Bam-burg said in justifying the proposed FWP changes, adding that the grading system has been their main complaint. Making alterations in the curriculum, she said, is the only way to make the necessary changes in the grading.
According to the proposal, all of those specially admitted and those entering the university with SAT verbal scores of 350 or below will be required to take a placement test to determine whether they will have to enroll in Composition 40, a remedial course.
Composition 40 will be worth four units that will not count toward an undergraduate degree.
Arrangements have yet to be made for incoming freshmen who have ACT scores as opposed to SAT scores, Bamberg said.
Bamberg said Composition 101 will be a prerequisite to Composition 102, unlike the present Composition 101A, which is of the same level of difficulty as Composition 101B.
"A standard letter grade will be issued at the end of 101," instead of the grade "N" that is given at the end of 101A, Bamberg said.
The change in grading, she said, would divide course credit evenly at four units per class, and thus alleviate the distress caused by weighing the grade received in 101B with eight units.
Under the new system, graduate students teaching freshman writing will have more guidelines to follow in planning their courses that will differentiate 101 and 102, Bamberg said.
"We'll still expect the 7,000 to 8,000 words per student each semester, but we will require that research technique be taught and longer papers be assigned in 102," she said.
Students hoping to pass out of freshman writing requirements will be able to take the Composition Proficiency Exam at four different times during the year, Bamberg said. But instead of answering one question in two hours, as they had in the past, students will take a two-question exam in two and one-half hours, she said.
"This will give us more information on which to judge the students," she said.
Sale of fraternity house delayed
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
Although the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity has announced the purchase of the Pi Kappa Phi house, Gary Leonard, executive vice president of Pi Kappa Phi Properties, said the deal has not yet been finalized.
Kappa Alpha Psi ran an ad in Wednesday's Daily Trojan announcing it was the first predominantly black fraternity at the university to own its own house, and that it would hold a lawn party to celebrate "a new tradition on the Row."
Kappa Alpha Psi had been renting the Pi Kappa Phi house.
Leonard, who has been working directly with the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter on campus, said, "We have signed a contract with them to sell the house, but we are waiting for them to get the funds to close the deal."
Thomas Stricklan, house manager for Kappa Alpha Psi, declined to comment on how the chapter would pay for the house.
Leonard said that he does not know how the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity plans to finance the purchase, but that he hopes to close the sale by the end of the month. He would not disclose the purchase price.
The Pi Kappa Phi chapter that originally occupied the house at 668 W. 28th St. was forced to close after low membership and poor recruitment efforts failed to support it, Leonard said.
The Kappa Alpha Psi members moved into the house after the Pi Kappa Phi chapter closed, and have been renting the house for the past two years.
Shannon Ellis, assistant to the vice-president of student affairs, said, "It's been great having them renting on the Row.”
"We're very pleased (about the purchase of the house). It's a first. We should be having more of it in the future," she said.
Michael Browning, vice-president of Kappa Alpha Psi, said the fraternity decided to buy the house because "it's never been done before — for a predominantly black fraternity to own a house on campus. We felt a need for one."
Who really owns the house at 668 W. 28th St. on the Row?
NEVENA HARP "DAILY TROJAN
MOLLY HUNTSMANDAILY TROJAN
The new electronic scanning system in the Trojan Bookstore reduced customer waiting time from 15 to 5 minutes.
Scanners reduce bookstore lines
By Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
The introduction of an electronic scanning system to checkout stations in the university bookstore sharply reduced the amount of time customers had to wait when purchasing items during the early semester rush, Jack Arnold, the director of business affairs for University Stores, said Thursday.
The university bookstore is the only store of its kind in the entire nation that has complete documentation of merchandise on a scanning system, Arnold said.
He said the average wait in line this semester was approximately five minutes, compared to 15 to 17 minutes the year before.
The scanning system, which cost an estimated $50,000, retains identification codes and prices on a computer. Individual scanners can recall the information immediately when itemizing merchandise.
The immediate effect of the system is that it "allows the cashier to process the customer more quickly," Arnold said.
"(What is) extremely critical is reducing the amount of time (customers) must wait in line," he said. "That is as important to us as it is to the customers."
At the beginning of each semester, an estimated
15,000 to 20,000 customers visit the bookstore during a five-day period, a significant increase over the 3,000 to 4,000 customers that would normally shop at the store within the same period of time.
Arnold said the scanning system enables the bookstore to keep "cleaner data" on its inventory, which comprises some 40 to 50 thousand items.
With the scanning system, "(the bookstore can) maintain a lower overall level of inventory, but be able to meet merchandise needs more quickly," he said.
In the past, the problem of inventory was limited recognizing what items needed to be reordered, Arnold said. The new scanning system gives the store a means of immediately determining w'hat items are out of stock.
"Our entire store is set up for scanning," Arnold said. "We are the only bookstore in the United States to have a complete, item-by-item scanning system."
Most stores use a scanning system for text books only, he said.
The bookstore's scanning system has drawn the interest of other universities across the country, including Stanford, which is sending representatives to observe the system, Arnold said. He said he has also been in contact with officials from Cornell and Syracuse universities, both located in upstate New York, regarding the system.
The university is also planning a seminar to educate other schools about the scanning system, Arnold said.
At present, the scanning system is operating at 75 percent efficiency, Arnold estimated. He said the system should be fully operative in 60 to 90
(Continued on page 3)
to
'(What is) extremely critical is reducing the amount of time (customers) must wait in line.'